News
| Published date | 01 January 1983 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/eb044586 |
| Pages | 7-21 |
| Date | 01 January 1983 |
| Subject Matter | Information & knowledge management,Library & information science |
THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY
News
GENERAL
Copyright and photocopying
The US Copyright Office has released the
final report Libraries, Publishers and
Photocopying, which describes in detail the
volume and characteristics of photocopying
and interlibrary loan in public, academic,
federal and special libraries in the US. Also
described are results of a survey of US pub-
lishers about their serial and book income and
photocopying permission requests, as well as
the results of personal interviews conducted
with library users about their own photocopy-
ing done on library coin-operated photocopy-
ing machines. The study, conducted under
contract by King Research, Inc., of Rock-
ville,
Maryland, was designed to provide data
as input to the US Copyright Office's five-
year review of the new US copyright law
which took effect on January 1st, 1978.
Copies of
the
final report ($25 in the US, $30
elsewhere) are available from King Research
Inc.,
PO Box 71, Rockville, Md 20850,
USA.
New edition of special
libraries directory
Access to information about special libraries
and information centres is provided in the
new, seventh edition of Gale Research's
Subject Directory of Special Libraries and
Information Centers (Five volumes, $460 the
set).
Arranged in five broad subject volumes,
the 16,000 entries are now accessible for the
first time through separate subject indexes in
each volume.
The seventh edition of the directory con-
tains all the entries found in the seventh edi-
tion of another Gale directory, the Directory
of Special Libraries and Information Centers
(published 1982). The Subject Directory con-
tains twenty-seven subject fields arranged as
follows: Vol. I: business, law, military, and
transportation. Vol. 2: audiovisual, educa-
tion, information science, picture, publish-
ing, rare book and recreational. Vol. 3: health
sciences. Vol. 4: area/ethnic, art, geography/
map,
history, humanities, music, religion/
theology, social sciences, theatre and urban/
regional planning. Vol. 5: agriculture,
energy, environment/conservation, food
sciences and science and technology.
A typical entry includes the official name
of the library, name of sponsoring organisa-
tion or institution, address with zip code,
name and title of person in charge, other
pro-
fessional personnel, collection statistics,
description of the subjects with which the
library or collection is concerned, policies
regarding use of the collection, services pro-
vided and telephone number with area code.
In addition to the Subject Index, each volume
contains an Alternate Name Index, which
provides cross-references from variant names
for libraries.
For further details contact Gale Research
Co.,
Book Tower, Detroit, Michigan 48226,
USA.
Document delivery in ARL libraries
Library managers are becoming increasingly
concerned about document delivery systems
because the means to identify and locate
materials has improved faster than the ability
to provide the materials and because a cut-
back in library budgets is forcing libraries to
borrow or obtain more material from other
sources. A new SPEC kit (no. 82, March
1982) has been produced
on
document delivery
systems in use in the Association of Research
Libraries. The September 1981 survey
covered two categories of service: internal
delivery — disseminating locally-owned
materials to users, and external delivery —
acquiring materials from an outside source for
local users. Some ninety ARL libraries
responded to the survey by providing materials
and information describing the methods they
employ. These include telefax, requests via
electronic mail and OCLC's interlibrary loan
subsystem and online ordering from data-
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